Research Fellow at Wadhwani AI

July'18 - Oct'20, Mumbai

The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) is an independent, nonprofit research institute a1nd global hub, developing AI solutions for social good. Projects:

• Early pest infestation detection for cotton farming
  • Paper accepted in KDD 2020
  • Blog on model compression
  • A guest post on the PyTorch blog on we build the Machine Learning Stack
• Smartphone-based anthropometry for neonatals
• Screening for COVID-19 using Cough sounds
  • Paper on arXiV
  • Paper accepted at ICLR 2021 AI for Public Health Workshop and ICLR 20201 Machine Learning for Preventing and Combating Pandemics Workshop

Research Intern - Deep Learning, HyperVerge

May'18 - July'18, Bangalore

HyperVerge Inc is a Silicon Valley startup founded by IITians and funded by NEA, Milliways Ventures and Naya Ventures. I worked on the problem of change detection using remote-sensing images where, given images of a place at different timestamps as input, the expected output is the change that happened in the time duration.

Research Intern - Deep Learning, Niramai

 Dec '17, Bangalore

Niramai is a health-tech startup that has developed a novel breast cancer screening solution using thermographic images. I worked on exploring the application of deep learning for tumour segmentation in infrared images. Our papers were accepted in the Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Conference, 2018 and Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal.

Software Development Intern, Qualcomm

May '17 - July '17, Bangalore

Developed the prototype for a real-time car parking system model applying a Convolutional Neural Network trained on the PKLot dataset with an accuracy of almost 94% using Transfer Learning for the competition IdeaQuest, held among the summer interns of Qualcomm. Proposed a novel algorithm for internal navigation using Li-Fi and preventing car-theft using Machine Learning & Image Processing.

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Co-founder, Scholar Mate

Jan '16 - May '16, Guwahati

I co-founded Scholar Mate during my sophomore year to provide an efficient platform for effective communication between teachers, parents and students.

Software Development Intern (Android) - Twango

Dec '15, Delhi

Twango is a dating app that brings together like-minded singles together on a single platform (50k+ downloads). I developed the first version of the app.